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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1.

application filed August as, 1915. Serial No. areas.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1. Louis A. JUZANEK, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Birnamwood. in the county of Shawano and State of lViseonsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Seat-Cover Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to the suhjert of sanitary coin-actuated dispensing cabinets, and the primary aim of the same is to provide a cabinet of the type mentioned that may be attached to the howl of a water closet and dispense sanitary covers for the water closet seat.

The invention contemplates in its general organization a cabinet that is shaped to conform to the general contour oi the front of a water closet howl so that themahinet will interlock therewith, means being provided for detachahly connecting the cabinet to the bowl. Inaddition to the foregoing, the invention contemplates the production of novel means for dispensing seat covers and coin releasing means for releasing the dispensing means, as well as simple means for holding the covers in position to he removed from the cabinet after the dispensing mechanism has been released by the insertion of a coin.

One simple and thoroughly practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings. wherein- Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a water closet the howl of which has: the improved cahinet attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 a plan view of one of the seat covers dispensed hy the cabinet.

Fig, 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 4-4. Fig. 5.

5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5, Fig. i.

6 is a detail view of the tripping pawl.

The improved dispensing cahinet comprises a paper compartment 1 and a dispensing mechanism compartment 2. The rear wall of the paper compartment is shaped to contorrn to the. contour of the front of a water closet howl 3. so that the cabinet may he interlocked with said howl below the seat 4 and fastened in such positral opening 10 that conforms to the contour of the opening of the closet seat the edges of the opening 10 being provided with folrlahle portions 12 adapted to he engaged with the edges of said close-t seat. Ad acent their lower ends. the covers 9 are provided with openings 13. Springs 15 are carried w the front wall of the paper compartment and have pins 16 at their free ends for engaging the openingl-i of the covers 9 to hold the covers partly pro ecting through the upper discharge outlet 17 of. the newer compartment. The discharge outlet ii is formed by bending outwardly the upper edge of the rear wall of the compartment and curving the same, and similarly curring the upper end of the outer or from; Wall of the compartment, thereby producing an elongated discharge outlet that is disposed below the rim of the closet seat.

A shaft 18 extends across the compartment 2 and has a eori u gated roller 19 fast thereon. the roller being preferahl or rubher. The roller '19 projects through a slot 20 formed in the front Wall compel ment 1 and frictionaliy engages outer sheet of the stack of covers 9 in said conipartxnent. Shaft 18 also has a pinion 2i. mounted thereon carrying a plate 22, the plate 22 having a pawl 23 pivoted thereto that engages a ratchet wheel mounted on the shaft 18 to prevent reverse movement of said shaft.

A rack bar 25 is vertically slitiahle through the compartment 2 and engages the pinion 21 to rotate the shaft. The rack bar has a laterally projecting handle 26 that projects through a guide slot 2? formed in the outer wall of the compartment 2. Pa spring 28 connects a lug 29 projecting raclr bar 25 with the top of the compartment l, said spring opposing downward. inovenment oil said bar. The rack bar 25 is provided with a laterally projecting lug- 3G is engaged by the lower end of a tripping pawl 32 to and thereby prevent movement of the bar until the pawl is tripped. to swing away from the lug. The pawl 32 is pivotally mounted within the compartment 2 and has a tripping lever portion projecting beneath the outlet of a coin chute '35 that extends from the top of the compartment 2.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that'by dropping a coin into the chute 35, the coin will roll down to the out let of the chute and engage and depress the tripping end of pawl 32 to cause the pawl to release the rack bar 25. After having been released, the rackbar 25 is depressed and through pinion 21, dispensing roller 19 is rotated to cause a seat cover to be discharged through the outlet 17. lVhen the cover 9 has reachedthe position shown in Fig. 4: of the drawings't he spring-pressed lugs 16 will engage the openings 13 of the cover and hold the same in position to be Withdrawn by the user:

A distinctive feature of this invention resides in the fact that the cabinet is of such a shape that it can be carried by and interlocked With the front portion ofthe bowl 3 and disposed in a position Where it is always accessible, yet does not interfere with the use of the closet.

I claim as my invention A dispensing apparatus for water-closet seat covers adapted for association with a substantially hemispherical Watercloset bowl and a support therefor oiis'et inwardly from the front and sides of the bowl and including a throat portion at the rear of the bowl, said apparatus including a casing horizontally curved to conform to the curvature of the mouth portion of the bowl and having its lower portion inwardly ofiset in an ogee curve to conform to and fit against the front and side portions of the bowl and the support upper and lower straps secured to the sides of the casing and passed about said bowl and throat portion and about said support and throat portion respectively, the casing being adapted to receive a pad of covers, and. means for procuring ejecting movements of the covers from the casing.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS AJJIRANEK. Witnesses:

Geo. W. YOUNG, M. Downer. 

